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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
North Shore Breeze 
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VOLUME 6. — Jan. 4, 1908 NuMBER 1 
JANUARY 4—10 
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New Year's! 
AnD Leap year! 
AND resolutions galore. 
ARE you keeping your resolutions? — 
New Year’s resolutions, of course. 
MANCHESTER Citizens who are disposed 
to criticise the schools of the town would 
do well to read. what Supt. of Schools 
Safford of Beverly has to say on ‘‘ The 
Educational Policy of the Community.’’ 
His address before the Municipal Club 
at Beverly Farms Monday night is given 
on another page. ‘He says that ‘“the 
degree of success of a school system de- 
pends in the long run and without escape 
upon that intangible but irresistible force 
in our social and political life called public 
opinion.’’. Public opinion! 
Wuat we had to say last week about 
the opportunity for andthe need of a 
first-class family hotel in Manchester, to 
take the place of the Masconomo House, 
which has long since passed the. stage 
where it can even be called ‘‘second 
class,’’ has evidently attracted more than 
local attention, for aside from the gener- 
al comment we have heard on the sub- 
ject, we are in receipt of two communi- 
cations this week bearing on the matter. 
up a matter of this kind. 
_from this suggestion and from others he 
The tone of each would indicate that the 
members of our summer colony favor 
such a move. — Both of the communica- 
tions are printed on this page. 
It will be noticed that one of the writ- 
ers would have the Board of Trade take 
It is obvious 
makes that he is not thoroughly ac- 
quainted with Manchester. It is true 
that a good live Board of Trade might 
take up a matter of this kind and might 
be able to do something that would inter- 
est capital in a project like this. 
But Manchester has no visible Board 
of Trade! There was one some years 
ago, but it has faded away. Why not 
get together and reorganize a Board of 
Trade? Even if this matter of a_ hotel 
for Manchester were not taken up at 
once there are other matters which a 
board of this kind could attend to. 
As we goto press we are in receipt 
of another communication somewhat 
along the lines of the other two printed 
on this page. It will be published next 
week. 
2D GROOT 6 GEE 
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Editor of the North Shore Breexe: 
Through the courtesy of Mr. A. E. 
McCleary, whom I met at Magnolia last 
summer, while he was connected with 
your paper, I have received a marked 
copy of your paper containing the edito- 
rial upon the opportunity for a summer 
hotel at Manchester-by-the Sea. 
I am very much interested in this 
article as it is in line with a conversation 
we had last summer. While I own a 
summer estate at . Narragansett Pier 
where we spend about eight months of 
the year my family and myself like to 
spend at least amonth each summer at 
some other resort.:: After spending’ a 
season at several places including Lenox, 
Saratoga, Bar Harbor and the White 
Mountains, we decided to spend two 
months of the past season at Manchester, 
as I am a devotee of golf and had heard 
so much praise and enthusiasm in behalf 
of the links of the Essex County club. 
Perhaps you can imagine my amaze- 
ment when I learned that to secure high- 
class hotel accommodations fora family 
party and necessary servants was out of 
the question at Manchester, and our two 
me very much to the point. 
months on the North Shore was nar- 
rowed down to two weeks at Magnolia, 
and that fraught with many uncomfort- 
able circumstances. 
Since then I have talked with many of 
my acquaintances in this city, at Narra- 
gansett and other places who were cog- 
nizant of these peculiar circumstances, 
and the consensus of opinion is that a 
veritable bonanza has gone begging in 
Manchester for some public spirited in- 
dividual or corporation to develop. 
Such an enterprise would be the crown- 
ing glory of Manchester if operated 
properly and with that peculiar conversa- 
tism which I note characterizes every- 
thing in and about Manchester. 
Indeed, I am surprised that your 
Board of Trade, with its watchful eye, 
alert to the best interests and well being 
of the town, should let the Masconomo 
‘House property fall into decadence with- 
out raising a mighty protest of righteous 
indignation, or interest other capital in 
a new hotel on a new site, for I believe 
there must be other good locations in 
Manchester for a hotel that will exactly 
dovetail with the demands. 
Felon: 
Philadelphia, Dec. 31, 1907. | 
Editor of the North Shore Brae 
Ever since my visit tothe North Shore 
some three years ago | have been a con- 
stant and interested reader of your paper. 
Your editorial in last week’s issue in re- 
gard to the desirability of a first class 
summer hotel at Manchester seems to 
Not only 
would the opening of such a hotel as you 
speak of in yourcolumns be desirable and 
an advantage in every way to Manches- 
ter, but in my opinion, it is an absolute 
need. 
If made thoroughly up-to-date in every 
respect, conducted along modern lines 
and kept free from all objectionable 
features, as could very easily be done, it 
would not only prove a decided Guanes 
cial success to its owners, but should add 
greatly to the social prestige of the North 
Shore, already known as the garden spot 
of the New England coast. There are 
scores of families who would be only too 
glad to avail themselves of the opportu- 
niry such a hotel would offer to spend 
the summer at Manchester, many who 
in seasons past have been unable to se- 
cure cottages here for the summer,. or 
who prefer to pass the summer at a hotel 
where everything is provided and where 
they would not have the responsibility of 
looking after a household. 
I sincerely hope a summer hotel cater- 
ing to an exclusive patronage will be 
erected in Manchester in the near future. 
It should greatly benefit the town itself, 
it would add to the social life of the 
North Shore and there is no reason why 
it should not prove a bonanza to its 
owner. *“NortH SHORE.” 
